Senior Frontend Engineer @ Kpler in London

Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead and mentor a team of frontend engineers, providing technical guidance and coaching.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define technical requirements and priorities.
• Architect, design, and implement scalable and maintainable frontend solutions using React and related technologies.
• Utilize mapping libraries such as Leaflet or MapboxGL to integrate geospatial functionality into our applications, customizing as needed to meet specific requirements.
• Drive best practices for code quality, testing, and performance optimization throughout the development lifecycle.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.
• Stay current on industry trends and emerging technologies, and advocate for their adoption where appropriate.
• Serve as a technical leader and advocate for frontend engineering best practices across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• You think as a user when you start working on a new feature.
• Building frontend features with Typescript and a modern framework (we use VueJS) has no secret for you.
• You think a great user experience needs well designed backend services.
• You can’t push code to production without tests and monitoring.
• You are comfortable with English communication (oral/written).
• You have proven record of shipping features on time and on budget  

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a focus on frontend development using React.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3, with a deep understanding of frontend frameworks and libraries.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate team members.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate complex technical challenges with creativity and pragmatism.
• Experience working in an agile development environment, with a focus on iterative delivery and continuous improvement.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with mapping technologies, preferably Leaflet or MapboxGL, and integrating them into web applications.
• Experience with backend development using Node.js or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with geospatial data formats, APIs, and visualization techniques.
• Understanding of cloud platforms and experience with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure.

•We offer competitive compensation & benefits including work from home allowance, medical and life insurance, training and development allowance, paid volunteer work and more!

• You’ll get to work in a truly global work environment, with offices in 7 countries (UK, France, Belgium, Austria, US, Dubai and Singapore), we come from more than 50 countries and speak more than 20 languages

•We have truly embraced the new age of workplace flexibility where you can chose to work fully remote, hybrid or onsite

•You will get a company laptop and you can choose between Windows, Mac, or Linux

•Global maternity (extended leave), parental, festival and compassionate leave policies aligned to the contemporary needs of the family, and individual choices

• Interesting product & challenging technical problems to solve: our market is very specialised and quite complex! This means we build real algorithms and there’s some serious software engineering at work here! 

• Our growth is exponential: we build new features and products everyday! We frequently tackle brand-new business areas which means there’s always everything to build and always an interesting problem to sink your teeth into!

• We are at the cross-road of Software Engineering, Commodity, Energy and Finance. This creates an interesting cultural mix: We value the flexibility, collaboration and employee-centric approach that the Tech culture brings but we also value the pragmatism, hard-working and intellectual excellence expectation that often runs in the Finance and Energy worlds.

• Team of 85+ talented Engineers working with the most modern tech stack

Recruiter Screen: 30 minute video interview with a recruiter from hiring team

Hiring Manager Interview: 45 minute exchange with one of our Engineering Managers from the dedicated team

Technical Exercise: Take home technical exercise 

Exercise Debrief: 1 hour debrief to review the completed exercise

Meet the Team: An opportunity to see the fit and get to know your potential future team!

We’re a dynamic company dedicated to nurturing connections and innovating solutions that tackle market challenges head-on. If you’re driven by customer satisfaction and thrive on turning ideas into reality, then you’ve found your ideal destination. Are you prepared to embark on this exciting journey with us?

We act decisively and with purpose, and we like to go the extra mile.

We foster relationships and develop creative solutions to address market challenges with cool features and solutions.

Being accessible and supportive to colleagues and clients with a friendly approach is essential.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Research shows that women and people of color are less likely than others to apply if they feel like they don’t match 100% of the job requirements. Don’t let the confidence gap stand in your way, we’d love to hear from you! We understand that experience comes in many different forms and are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team.

Kpler is committed to providing a fair, inclusive and diverse work-environment. We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse, global community. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer.